Santa María Zacatepec

Information and facts about the municipality of Santa María Zacatepec

Location of Santa María Zacatepec

The municipality of Santa María Zacatepec is located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca México

Population of Santa María Zacatepec

The overall population of the municipality named Santa María Zacatepec is 13734 citizens, 6314 males and 7420 females.

Age distribution

The population of Santa María Zacatepec is divided into 7014 minors and 6720 adults, with 1264 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Santa María Zacatepec

3874 people in Santa María Zacatepec live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 2674 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 155 and 2394 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 466 citizens of Santa María Zacatepec.

Economic situation

In Santa María Zacatepec about 2913 households are registered.

2867 of these households are common houses or apartments, 1178 are without floor and about 157 consist of one room only.

2455 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 2618 are connected to the public water supply, 2672 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 64 households to own a computer, 347 own a washing machine and 1784 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Santa María Zacatepec

Besides the 2046 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 247 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

1800 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 4270 persons did not finish the school. 1117 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 613 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 668 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 5 years.